Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management
Fecal Egg Counts may Help Combat Antiparasitic Resistance in Cattle
Research Highlights -Improving Food-Animal Health, Well-Being and ManagementThe internal parasites that infect cattle in Arkansas are becoming resistant to many antiparasitic drugs. Researchers used fecal egg counts to classify which drug classes effectively reduce...
Researcher Identifies Microbiota in the Bovine Respiratory Microbiome that can Counter Bovine Respiratory Disease
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management Jiangchao Zhao Associate Professor of Animal Science Contact Jiangchao ZhaoThe Problem BRD costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion per year, including animal death, reduction in feed efficiency and...
Chickens Selectively Bred for Water Efficient Traits
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management BREAKTHROUGH BROILERS - Sara Orlowski, assistant professor of poultry science, is breeding her fourth generation of broilers for water efficiency. She wants to develop chickens that consume less water...
Pasture-Weaned Calves May Be More Cost-Effective Than ‘Dry Lot’ Calves
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management WEANED CALVES — Daniel Rivera, director of the Southwest Research and Extension Center, is studying three weaning scenarios in 115 Angus-based calves. He just finished the first year of the study and found...
Animal Scientists Pioneer New Methods for Culturing Swine Gut Microbiomes
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management Jiangchao Zhao Associate Professor of Animal Science Contact Jiangchao Zhao FacebookTwitter The Problem The gut microbiome is an environment of microbial communities living in the intestinal tract of...
Evaluation of the Phosphorus Intake on Beef Heifer Growth Performance and Conception
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management Beth Kegley Professor of Animal Science Contact Beth Kegley Jeremy Powell Professor of Animal Science Contact Jeremy PowellFacebookTwitter The Problem Many husbandry practices in the beef industry are...
Poultry Science Researchers Fine Tune Chicken Sprinkler Technology
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management Yi Liang Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Contact Yi Liang Walter Bottje Experiment Station Poultry Science Physiologist Contact Walter Bottje Sami Dridi Professor of Poultry...
Can Ruminant Ranchers Control Nitrogen Loss with a Special Feed?
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management Mary Savin Professor - Microbial Ecology Contact Mary Savin Ken Coffey Professor - Animal Science Contact Ken Coffey Dirk Philipp Associate Professor - Animal Science Contact Dirk Philipp Jiangchao Zhao...
Reducing Carbon Footprint of Swine Production
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management Charles Maxwell Professor of Swine Nutrition and Management Contact Charles Maxwell Tsung Cheng Tsai Research Associate Contact Tsung Cheng Tsai FacebookTwitter Charles Maxwell Professor...
Portable Biosensors Provide In-Field Screening for Pathogenic Bacteria
< Improving Food Animal Health, Well-Being and Management The ProblemFood contaminated by pathogenic microorganisms is estimated to cause 76 million illnesses, 325,000 serious illnesses resulting in hospitalization, and 5,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. USDA/ERS...